What 𪛊 means
It names the large form of an ancient Chinese flute.
Erya, an early Chinese reference work, describes 篪 as a bamboo pipe played sideways and calls its large form 沂. Guangyun, a Chinese dictionary of sounds and rhymes, records 𪛊 for 大篪 (“large 篪”).
A historical Chinese instrument term.
Who writes 𪛊
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Related characters
4䇵
CJK Unified Ideograph-41F5
A documented variant spelling of 𪛊 for the same flute.
𥭦
CJK Unified Ideograph-25B66
Another documented spelling variant of 𪛊 for the same flute.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7Bea
The ancient Chinese sideways-played bamboo flute; 𪛊 names its large form.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6C82
Erya’s name for the large form of 篪, not a variant spelling of 𪛊.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𪛊 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𪛊
- Search it as
- 𪛊 · yín · yin · large flute · ancient flute · bamboo flute · chi flute · Chinese flute character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𪛊CSS
\2A6CAMandarin input
Enter yin in Mandarin pinyin input and select 𪛊 if offered. If it appears as a box, try a font with extended Chinese character coverage.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪛊
HTML hex
𪛊
CSS content
content: "\2A6CA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%9B%8A
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.